Foley Balloon

Just wondering if any of you BTDT moms or brand new mommies that had to be induced have any experience with this? I am scheduled to be induced on Tues/19... going in at 1pm to have the foley balloon inserted, basically told I need to be walking around with it all day then meet DR back at L&D at 8pm to check progress and get things going. She did say it's not going to be comfortable at all (expected), but is it a painful process? I understand it's pretty much forcing your body to dilate. I'm pretty nervous, ready for LO to be here, just want things to go well..

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Thanks for the heads up! I can deal with "uncomfortable" because I'm prepared for that, just didn't really know what to expect. Did you have to do the same thing where you had to leave and come back hours later? Did it cause you to feel strong contractions?

My dr is doing this to me on Tuesday afternoon and then Wednesday I am going in for the induction. He said that his experience with it is that it makes the induction go faster and tends lead to success (fewer c sections). He said that it should not be painful. I find it hard to believe based in the cervical check hurting me, but I am not very dilated or effaced so I am fine with trying this route.

You know, i have no idea what kind of foley bulb everyone else got, but the one I got I had to be in the hospital bed, and they injected the baloon with two syringes of saline with in a couple minutes and was the worst pain. :/ So good luck to you, and I hope its not too painful.

Mine got wedged between baby's head and my bladder and it was crazy painful while otherwise it is not painful at all. If you feel like you have to pee and you've had an epidural tell your nurse ASAP and she can move it. I dealt with it for a while because I didn't know better. Hope this helps someone:)

Im having the same thing done tuesday at 2:30 then have to meet back at the hispital tuesday night. And start pitocin wed morning if needed. Im also only dilated 1 and my cervix is still pretty high so i hope this balloon helps. Im starting to get scared.lol

I just had to be induced with my March 2012 baby due to baby not passing the NST and biophysical because of unmedicated low side of high blood pressure. I was induced at 37 weeks exactly. They started with the pill you insert in your cervix to soften it. Then after they put the foley balloon in. It is very uncomfortable and does not hurt that bad. The only time it feels a little bit of pain is when it is being put in. Other then that it feels uncomfortable. Then they started the pitocin and then broke my water and all these methods worked for me and I was induced earlier then you ladies with no dialation or anything.